Samba Login issues..

[Richard Sharpe]

Makis Marmaridis wrote:

>
> Try setting
>
> "encrypt passwords = yes"
>
> in your smb.conf file.
>

This is an incredibly bad piece of advice, because it is incomplete.

He also has to add passwords for all the relevant accounts to the 
smbpasswd file. Without that extra piece of advice, and some hint on the 
commands to use, you have not really helped.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prasad, Sreenivasa [ mailto:sreenivasa.prasad at digital.com ]
> Sent: Friday, 11 January 2002 5:37 PM
> To: 'samba-technical at samba.org'
> Subject: Samba Login issues..
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have installed samba on my Linux machine. When I try connecting from 
> my NT
> client, the following error is coming up.
>
> \\server not accessible.
> The account is not authorized to login from this station.
>
> How to over come this?
>
> Advanced thanks,
>
> Sreenivasa Prasad V.
>
>
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